August, 26 2022

⚖️ Affidavit Released

The Justice Department released a heavily redacted affidavit that was used to obtain a warrant to raid Mar-a-Lago to search for classified documents that former president Donald Trump withheld from the National Archives.

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🍿 Fantastic Four Finds a Director

Marvel may have found the director for the upcoming Fantastic Four movie. Matt Shakman is a veteran TV director who helmed WandaVision for the studio and has directed for TV shows like Game of Thrones and Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The movie is slated to come out in 2024.

⚡️ Moderna Sues Pfizer

Moderna is suing Pfizer, alleging that Pfizer violated Moderna's patents for the mRNA technology that the Covid-19 vaccine is built on. Moderna says that in making their Covid-19 vaccine using mRNA technology, Pfizer violated patents filed by Moderna from 2010-2016.

💻 Fallout From the Twilio Hack Continues

In an update about the far-reaching impacts of a hack into Twilio earlier this month, Twilio revealed that the hackers also accessed the accounts of some Authy users. The hackers were able to access the accounts of 93 users and registered new devices to generate login codes for accounts that used two-factor authentication.

🍿 It's Britney!

Britney Spears is back on the charts thanks to Hold Me Closer, a collaboration between the star and Elton John. The song mixes John's hits Tiny Dancer and The One and integrates Spears's vocals. It's her first new music since 2016.

🍿 Warner Bros. Executives Meet With Ezra Miller

Warner Bros. film chairs Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy met with Ezra Miller, the controversial star of the upcoming film, The Flash. The meeting comes after the star's escalating, erratic behavior over the last two years caught attention online and threw the fate of the DC film up in the air. Miller was reportedly coaxed to the meeting and decided to issue a public apology for their sometimes violent behavior after it was reported that Warner Bros. was considering canceling the film's release.

🍿 Even More Houses With Even More Dragons

HBO's spinoff prequel to Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, was renewed for a second season. The series premiere is the most watched tv-premiere for an HBO original series, and the audience has doubled since its debut.

💻 Meta Launches New Headset

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed rumors that Meta will launch the newest VR headset in October. He told podcaster Joe Rogan that \"Project Cambria\" will have a host of new features that take the user deeper into virtual reality than ever before.

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💻 Off to New Horizons

The VP of Horizon, a key component of the Metaverse, is leaving Meta. After a difficult week for Meta, Vivek Sharma is leaving Horizon for an unknown opportunity. A screenshot of Mark Zuckerberg's avatar in Horizon sparked a meme movement with social media users mocking the avatar's soulless appearance.

💻 Uh Oh 0ktapus

Security researchers have unveiled the scale of the hacking scheme known by the nickname \"0ktapus,\" which breached 130 organizations by phishing employees for login credentials. The hack breached companies like Twilio and Cloudflare and targeted Coinbase, AT&T, and others. The hackers stole the login credentials from 10,000 individuals in the scheme, which began in March 2022.

💻 LastPass Hack Confirmed

LastPass revealed that an unauthorized agent accessed some of the password manager's source code. The CEO assured customers that they found no evidence that the hacker had access to users' passwords and there was no action necessary. He also confirmed that the company would continue to monitor its code for changes.

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The producers of the film "Rust" named Bianca Cline as its cinematographer. The documentary will cover the death of the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during production when a prop gun held by lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin misfired with a live round.
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Rust Documentary Is Moving Full Speed Ahead

The producers of the film "Rust" named Bianca Cline as its cinematographer. The documentary will cover the death of the film's cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during production when a prop gun held by lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin misfired with a live round.
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Green light for Rust documentary

  • The producers of the film “Rust” announced that they had found a cinematographer to continue the production of the film after it was halted when the former cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed in an on-set accident.
  • The producers announced in October that the film would be completed in Hutchins’ honor and that a documentary would be made about the completion of the film.
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Meta is reportedly planning a new round of layoffs that are expected to happen sometime in March.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Meta May Be Planning Further Layoffs

Meta is reportedly planning a new round of layoffs that are expected to happen sometime in March.
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Here we go again

  • Meta is preparing for a new round of job cuts that are expected to take place in March and will affect an unknown number of people.
  • In November, Meta laid off about 13% of its workforce.
  • Meta is one of the few tech companies to expand on earlier layoffs from 2022, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that 2023 will be a year of "efficiency."
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January inflation was higher than expected, sparking fears that the Federal Reserve may enact further interest rate hikes.
January inflation was higher than expected, sparking fears that the Federal Reserve may enact further interest rate hikes.
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Higher than expected

  • Consumer prices rose 0.5% in January, according to the Labor Department’s consumer price index, which was higher than experts expected.
  • The Federal Reserve may issue a more aggressive hike in the coming months to slow inflation.
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